Olympic gold medallist Nina Kennedy has capped an extraordinary 12 months by winning back-to-back Herb Elliott Medals for West Australia’s most inspiring sporting performance of the year.
Glen Quartermain
The remarkable Gout Gout has clocked an astonishing 200m time of 20.29 seconds at the Queensland All Schools Championships.
John Salvado
Tokyo Olympic Games silver-medallist and Japanese race walker Koki Ikeda has been provisionally suspended for doping.
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Ethiopian marathon runner Tsehay Gemechu has been banned for four years over suspected blood doping.
Genevieve Gregson has won the Melbourne Marathon and her husband Ryan finished second in the men's event behind Jack Rayner.
Roger Vaughan
Diamond League organisers have announced increases in prize money for next year's athletics series.
Olympic gold medallist Nina Kennedy says the return of the Perth Track Classic early next March after a five-year absence will “showcase our sport to the country”.
West Australian pole vaulter Nina Kennedy has finished a golden season with a victory in the Diamond League final in Brussels.
Olympic champion Nina Kennedy has soared to victory in the Diamond League final once more in Brussels, completing her remarkable 2024 pole vault campaign.
Ian Chadband
Australian Matt Denny has broken his own Australian discus record en route to victory in the Diamond League final.
Olympic champion Nina Kennedy says she was disappointed to only clear 4.87m despite registering a fourth straight pole vault win in the Diamond League.
Rob Forsaith
Michael Johnson has signed the entire podium from the Olympic 1500m race - Cole Hocker, Yared Nuguse and Josh Kerr - for his Grand Slam Track league in 2025.
Eddie Pells
Australia won a record 14 medals at the world junior athletics championships in Peru, eclipsing the previous mark of 10.
Australian sprinters Gout Gout and Torrie Lewis have produced eye-catching performances to win silver in the 200m at the world junior championships.
Pole vaulter Nina Kennedy loves flying through the air, while Letsile Tebogo can just about do anything when it comes to sprinting.
Torrie Lewis and 16-year-old Queenslander Gout Gout are the fastest qualifiers in the 200 metres, while Tryphena Hewett has won Australia's fourth junior medal.
Melissa Woods
Australian Delta Amidzovski has won gold in her "fun'' event at the world junior athletics championships in Peru.
The Australian 4x400m mixed relay team has won gold on day one of the world junior athletics championships in Peru.
High jump stars Eleanor Patterson and Nicola Olyslagers have had to give best to Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh again in their Olympic rematch in Lausanne.
English middle-distance runner and Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson's season has been brought to an early end because of injury.
Paris gold medallist Nina Kennedy touched down in Perth on Tuesday night to a chorus of applause from friends and fans - and declared she’s eyeing even greater heights in the years to come.
Sinead Diver lasted just one kilometre of the Olympic women's marathon before succumbing to severe cramping.
Australia's haul of seven athletics medals in Paris was the most since the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.
Dutch star Sifan Hassan has won the Olympic women's marathon, with Jess Stenson the leading Australian in 13th place.
